Our Recommended WordPress Plugins & Tools
Here are some of our favourite WordPress plugins and tools you can use to improve your website.

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Tawk.to
A great live chat plugin that allows you to monitor and chat with the visitors on your website, respond to support tickets and empower customers to help themselves. Totally free to get started.
OptinMonster
OptinMonster’s powerful drag-and-drop builder allows you to create visually stunning opt-in forms that are optimised for the highest conversion rates.
Elementor Pro
A must-have extension if you use Elementor as your page builder. Elementor Pro gives you 300+ Pro templates, 10+ website template kits, and more.
WP Engine
The best WordPress hosting platform for websites that mean business! More expensive than most, but this is the Rolls Royce of WordPress hosting.
Coming Soon Pro by Seedprod
Easily setup a stunning coming soon page, capture leads & limit access to your website while under construction.
Gravity Forms
Our favourite plugin for quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and easily embed forms on your website. Great for integrating into lots of 3rd party tools!
Melu Live Chat
Convert more visitors into paying customers by using Melu Managed Live Chat, a human-manned live chat tool for your website. Start a 30 day free trial today!
Unbounce
The ultimate landing page creator which integrates with WordPress. Put together stunning, high-converting landing pages quickly and easily to use on any marketing campaign. Get 20% off when signing up via our link here.
CoSchedule
Publish content like a pro from your WordPress website and grow your traffic by scheduling social media posts while you blog. CoSchedule is the marketing calendar that WordPress has been missing.
SiteGround
An alternative, cheaper website hosting service. Great to get started with if you don’t want to spend more on web hosting.
Trustindex
Finally, a review management tool that’s simple and affordable. You can embed your reviews from Google, Trustpilot, Facebook, and other platforms easily on your website using 13 amazing review widget layouts and 9 pre-designed styles.
Aweber
Powerfully-simple email marketing designed to help your small business grow, with a WordPress integration to show popup forms and in-line subscription forms.
ManageWP
A better way to manage WordPress websites if you have multiple sites that you need to maintain. The ManageWP dashboard gives you an easy way to keep an eye on all of your websites at once.
Flywheel
One of our hosting partners, Flywheel offer excellent hosting for WordPress websites with lots of great tools built-in such as backups, security and 24/7 support.
ActiveCampaign
Our choice of CRM. We use it ourselves here at WPMaintain and highly recommend it to our clients. It offers native integration with lots of WordPress tools such as WooCommerce, Gravity Forms and more.
Yoast
The #1 WordPress SEO plugin, Yoast does everything in its power to please both visitors and search engine spiders. This WordPress SEO plugin helps you with your search engine optimisation from the ground up.
Hotjar
Hotjar is a behavior analytics and user feedback service that helps you understand the behavior of your website users and get their feedback through tools such as heatmaps, session recordings, and surveys.
Crazy Egg
Understand the customer journey with snapshots, heatmaps and recordings of your visitors’ browsing activities on your website, and then use that data to make changes, conduct a/b split tests, and more.
Hello Bar
98% of visitors are leaving your site without taking action. Learn how you can increase your organic conversions by installing Hello Bar on your WordPress website.
iThemes Security Pro
The best WordPress security plugin, iThemes Security Pro takes the guesswork out of WordPress security. You shouldn’t have to be a security professional to use a security plugin, so iThemes Security Pro makes it easy to secure & protect your WordPress website.
Freshdesk
We use Freshdesk here at WPMaintain to manage our customer support desk. Not strictly a WordPress plugin or tool but great to track and manage incoming support tickets from multiple channels with one inbox, which your entire team can access and update.
BackupBuddy
Your WordPress website needs a reliable backup strategy using a trusted WordPress backup plugin. BackupBuddy is the complete backup solution.
LiveChat
Real-time chatbox with lots of options to integrate 3rd party tools across multiple channels. Manage all customer interactions in one place for more effective customer service.
iubenda
iubenda is the easiest and most professional way to generate a privacy policy for your website, mobile app and facebook app.
Complianz
Complianz is a GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent plugin that supports GDPR, DSGVO, CCPA and PIPEDA with a conditional Cookie Notice and customized Cookie Policy based on the results of the built-in Cookie Scan.